We did it! Last week we achieved a major victory in NSW, and that’s worth celebrating. The O’Farrell government has been embarrassed into abolishing the pro-gun pro-hunting Game Council NSW, suspending amateur hunting in state forests, and ending the idea of...

This speech was delivered on 20 June 2013 in the NSW Upper House. You can read the original contribution online here. NATIVE FOREST WOODCHIP INDUSTRY Mr DAVID SHOEBRIDGE [4.11 p.m.]: Forestry in New South Wales has been under pressure for some time. Unsustainable wood...

The announcement late last night that police have charged the acting Chief Executive Officer of the Game Council with a string of firearms and illegal hunting offences means it is now time for the government to suspend all hunting on the 2 million hectares of public...

Leaked documents have revealed that an area proposed for unsupervised amateur hunting in the South East Forest National Park, which the government has described as having ‘low to zero visitor use’, is actually very well used section of the park alongside...

The NSW Game Council is again misleading the public, by claiming that their licensed hunters have a 99.99 per cent compliance rate. This is completely untrue, with the number of breaches likely to be well over 10 per cent or more than 23,000 breaches per year. Greens...

A free-for-all culture of drugs, booze and illegal hunting across NSW has been uncovered from previously secret internal Game Council documents obtained by the NSW Greens. For years the Game Council has been claiming that hunters in NSW are safe and that the public...